relative v absolute location

[mworkman]

I am trying to load an xml file but I can't seem to find the location to load it.

Here is the location of the xml file:

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\php\webphp.xml

 

Here is the location of the file trying to load the xml:

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\php\gui\guiindex.php

 

What location would I put in here:

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement("XMLFILELOCATION", NULL, true);

[simshaun]

Have you tried C:\inetpub\wwwroot\php\webphp.xml?  If so, did you escape the backslashes (assuming you surrounded the string with double-quotes?)

 

Alternatively, ../webphp.xml

[rwwd]

well firstly you need to define the absolute file path, and have that done in the root file, something like this:-

 

define('ABSOLUTE_PATH', dirname(__FILE__). "/");

 

This will give you the complete server path for you to work with defined within a constant - and a trailing slash, then you can refer to this in the xml function - this should help you out with this issue, but seriously, always use absolute paths, then you can avoid the toothpick syndrome, and this will make your code easier to maintain.

 

Rw